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I guess I'm going to keep this thread going as journal as long as the situation continues to develop. I
think there is much to learn about the actions of companies like this and their impact beyond the obvious.
Yesterday, I sent a message to the
pornographers telling them that their porn-napping was making the domain names worthless. Today, the mouse trap no longer pops up a porn site. It traps your mouse at the entrance of the Windows Cyber Casino.
Was it my message that caused the change? I doubt it. There were certainly many others who must have used that web form to express their displeasure.
Ok, so now we can go to one of
our favorite education web sites, see the entrance to the domain of the Euro Teen Sluts, try to leave and get yanked into the Windows Cyber Casino.
So what are the dangers now? Well, the
obvious answer would be the possibility of a student having access to a credit card and gambling in school, but that's the obvious answer.
To answer that question more
completely you have to examine the Cyber Casino ad. On the first screens makes their pitch, and rather well, if I may say. It starts by off by offering you $60 credit and then $1000 to play with if I download the software to start playing. But hey, if you don't want to play for real money, you can click the Play for Fun Option.
Guess what? If you click Play for Fun, you end up at the same page as if you had clicked on the Play for Money. Isn't that fun? Beyond that there are other dangers that I won't be able to
detect, because in order to do so, I would have to download and install their Casino Software.
Well, it
now likely that I will lose money if I gamble. They pay back 98% of what they take in. I know. I saw that in the charts where they compare their payouts to the payouts of the land based casinos. It must be true or they wouldn't say it. Right?
Yeah, right! I really want to download a program from a porn-napping, mouse trapping Euro Teen Sluts, install it on my computer and then
allow it to communicate with them over the Internet. Right after that, I think I'll send them the key to my front door.
OK, let's say that the Casino is
100% legit, and the software doesn't send the contents of your hard drive to someone in a cave in Afghanistan, do you see any other dangers?
Well, again, I have to speculate, because I'm not about
to download it, but it partly
depends on your network and whether students can accidentally or intentionally download and install software. (If you download, there is a little button that you have to uncheck or it will install itself AUTOMATICALLY.)
I'm not sure whether the software is a separate program or a browser plugin. It might
result in nothing. It might result in casino software being installed on your computer. It might result in the bowser's home page becoming the casino. I have no real idea.
Should gambling be a
category that we should block or would it be better to arm the student with the dangers of this kind of cyber sheisterism?
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